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Johann Joachim Winckelmann

1717 - 1768

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann (US: VINK-əl-mahn; German: [ˈjoːhan ˈjoːaxɪm ˈvɪŋkl̩man]; 9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the differences between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art. "The prophet and founding hero of modern archaeology", Winckelmann was one of the founders of scientific archaeology and first applied the categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the history of art. Many consider him the father of the discipline of art history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Joachim Winckelmann is the 19th most popular historian, the 253rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 234th in 2019) and the most popular German Historian.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist who is most famous for his writings on ancient Greek art.

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Among historians, Johann Joachim Winckelmann ranks 19 out of 561. Before him are Thomas Kuhn, Hecataeus of Miletus, Procopius, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Mircea Eliade, and Cassius Dio. After him are Manetho, William of Tyre, Leopold von Ranke, Arrian, Fernand Braudel, and Joannes Zonaras.

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Among people born in 1717, Johann Joachim Winckelmann ranks 6. Before him are Maria Theresa, Pope Pius VI, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Mustafa III, and Horace Walpole. After him are Peter III of Portugal, Johann Stamitz, Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Marie Anne de Mailly, and David Garrick. Among people deceased in 1768, Johann Joachim Winckelmann ranks 3. Before him are Canaletto, and Marie Leszczyńska. After him are Nicola Porpora, Laurence Sterne, Georg Brandt, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Francesco Maria Veracini, Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Joachim Winckelmann ranks 253 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Pachelbel (1653), Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1086), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Robert Bunsen (1811), and Justus von Liebig (1803). After him are Heinrich Schütz (1585), Jacob Grimm (1785), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), Werner von Siemens (1816), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Johann Joachim Winckelmann ranks 1. After him are Leopold von Ranke (1795), Friedrich Carl von Savigny (1779), Adam of Bremen (1100), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Aby Warburg (1866), Julius Wellhausen (1844), Erich Auerbach (1892), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876), and Christoph Cellarius (1638).

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